User blog comment:Zenki7/Mobile main page save bug/@comment-30866120-20171202222652/@comment-27493717-20171202231246

Well...

Redirect Categories are a bad thing, ...
Normally, I would disapprove the creation of "Redirect Categories", because they show up in the Unused categories-section of the Admin Dashboard, thus causing false-positive entries, that are disruptive to our surveillance of maintenance actions, that need to be taken care of in the future. (or simply put "these redirects show up as unused categories, confusing any admin, who doesn't know, that the category is a redirect")

Also, there is no way of marking a category as a redirect without noting it down in your summary when creating it as or changing it to a redirect. This is because of how redirects work in general.

If you added a description, the redirect doesn't automatically redirect you, but you end up on some sort of disambiguation page instead, so normal users would end up even more confused than the admins!

...but...
But as, just as you stated, this would leave the mobile users ending up on a deleted category page, it is actually the lesser evil.

Of cause, once we are able to edit the mobile main page again, you should go ahead and remove the "Redirect Categories" again.

Got it? ;)

Oh well...
Except, it's neither great nor uncommon nor lovely... (rolleyes)

Actually, I think, these are related to all the recent Wikia/FANDOM updates, which are giving Wikia/FANDOM lots of hiccups!

We have general techy rule that is well known for commonly getting ignored by a majority of techies all around the world. It's called:

"Semerone' dad: "Never build NCARS!"

With NCARS being an abbreviation for "Never Change a Running System".

It basically means, that you shouldn't change something, that is working completely fine the way it is, because there is always the possibility of you (the techy) ending up breaking it.

Well... I do my best not to build any NCARS, but Wikia/FANDOM builds lots of them right now.

There is also an issue, that is currently on the move, where people end up with the funny, blank photograph icon (the one, that is sometimes displayed instead of our images, when the servers have hiccups) instead of a user images when they upload a new one.

But that's off-topic. XD